Róża Maria Goździewska Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth and Family

In the early 21st century her photo gained recognition, having been used in various materials published by the Warsaw Uprising Museum. Her photo was colorized in the 2010s, and by the late 2010s described as “well known” and even as one of the most famous photos of the Warsaw Uprising.

A photo of Goździewska, wearing a Red Cross armband, was taken in early August 1944 by Eugeniusz Lokajski, nom-de-guerre “Brok”, a Home Army resistance fighter and photographer, who would perish a month later. The Uprising, after incurring major casualties among the civilian participants, was eventually crushed by the Germans on 2 October. Goździewska and her sister survived the war. Afterwards, she attended a gymnasium run by the Ursulines, graduated from the Silesian University of Technology, and in 1958, she emigrated to France, where she got married and had two children. She died on 29 October 1989.

Róża Maria Goździewska (Polish pronunciation: [ˈruʐa ˈmarʲja ɡɔʑˈd͡ʑɛfska]; also known as Różyczka Goździewska, Różyczka being a diminutive of her first name, lit. “Little Rose”; 31 March 1936 – 29 October 1989) was a Polish nurse, known as the youngest nurse of the 1944 Warsaw Uprising when she was a child.

Goździewska was born on 31 March 1936. Her father was killed by the Gestapo in 1943. A year later, on 1 August, the city of Warsaw was engulfed in the uprising against the German occupiers, with the civilian population caught in the middle. A number of child soldiers took part in the fighting on the side of the Polish insurgents.